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Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations
for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

Irregular Heartbeat

(Arrhythmia)

• The Facts About Irregular Heartbeat

• Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:

- Documented Health Benefits in Patients
- Documented Health Benefits by Clinical Studies

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The Facts About Irregular Heartbeat

Worldwide, more than 100 million people suffer from irregu-
lar heartbeat. This condition is caused by a disturbance in the
creation or conduction of the electrical impulse responsible for
a regular heartbeat. In some cases, these disturbances are
caused by a damaged area of the heart muscle, for example,
after a heart attack. The textbooks of medicine, however, admit
that in most cases the causes of irregular heartbeat remain
unknown. It is no wonder that irregular heartbeat conditions
are a growing epidemic on a worldwide scale.

Conventional medicine has invented its own diagnostic term
to cover the fact that it does not know the origin of most
arrhythmias. “Paroxysmal arrhythmia” means nothing other
than “causes unknown.” As a direct consequence, the thera-
peutic options of conventional medicine are confined to treat-
ing the symptoms of irregular heartbeat. Beta-blockers, cal-
cium antagonists and other anti-arrhythmic drugs are given to
patients in the hope that they will decrease the incidence of
irregular heartbeat. However, the most frequent known side
effect of these drugs is an increased risk for new arrhythmias!

Slow forms of arrhythmias with long pauses between heart-
beats are dealt with by implanting a pacemaker. In other cases,
heart muscle tissue that creates or conducts uncoordinated
electrical impulses is cauterized (burned) and eliminated as a
focus of the electrical disturbance in the heart muscle. Without
an understanding of the primary cause of irregular heartbeat,
the therapeutic approaches by conventional medicine are not
specific and frequently fail.

Modern Cellular Medicine now provides the breakthrough in
our understanding of the causes, prevention and adjunct treat-
nent of irregular heartbeat. The most frequent cause of irregu-
lar heartbeat is a chronic deficiency of vitamins and other
essential nutrients in millions of “electrical” heart muscle cells
that generate and conduct the electrical impulse responsible

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Primary Cause

Vitamin Deficiency in
Millions of “Electrical”
Heart Muscle Cells

Natural Prevention and
Natural Treatment

Impaired
Electrical
Impulse

Irregular
Heartbeat

Irregular Heartbeat

Refill

Helps

Prevent

and

Correct

Helps

Prevent

and

Correct

Helps

Prevent

and

Correct

Normal

Cell

Deficient

Cell

The causes, prevention and adjunct treatment of irregular heartbeat

Optimum Dietary Intake of
Essential Nutrients:

• Vitamin C
• Coenzyme Q-10
• Magnesium

How Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations

Can Help Patients With Irregular Heartbeat

Please share the following letters with anyone you know suffer-
ing from irregular heartbeat. By doing so, you may help greatly
improve the quality of life of a person or even save a life.

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for a normal heartbeat. Long-term deficiencies of essential
nutrients in these cells cause or aggravate disturbances in the
creation or conduction of the electrical impulses and trigger
arrhythmias. The primary method for preventing and correct-
ing irregular heartbeat is an optimum supply of specific vita-
mins and other cellular nutrients.

Scientific research and clinical studies have already docu-
mented the value of magnesium, carnitine, coenzyme Q-10
and other important components of my Cellular Health recom-
mendations in helping to normalize different forms of irregular
heartbeat and improve the quality of life for patients.

My recommendations for patients with irregular heartbeat:
Start as soon as possible with this vitamin program and inform
your doctor about it. Take these essential nutrients in addition
to your regular medication. Do not stop or alter your regular
medication on your own. Any changes in anti-arrhythmic
medication can have serious consequences for your heartbeat
and should be done only in consultation with your doctor.

Prevention is better than treatment. A natural cardiovascular
program, which helps to correct severe health conditions such
as irregular heartbeat is, of course, your best choice for pre-
venting irregular heartbeat in the first place.

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Dear Dr. Rath:

Two months ago, I was experiencing loud heartbeats, tachycar-
dia and irregular beating of my heart. I saw my doctor who
promptly put me on an anti-arrhythmic drug. I can honestly say
the medication did me absolutely no good.

Then, I started to follow your vitamin program. What a smart deci-
sion that was! Within a few days, the tachycardia stopped and
I’ve not experienced any loud or irregular heartbeats. It’s like a
miracle. It must be the combination of nutrients in your program
because I had been taking coenzyme Q-10 separately from my
regular vitamins. I tell everyone I know about the benefits of your
program. Because of your research, I’m able to continue working.

Sincerely,
B.M.

Dear Dr. Rath:

In February, I introduced my 74-year-old grandmother to your
cardiovascular vitamin program. Her slow and irregular heartbeat
had led her doctor to begin preliminary preparations to install a
pacemaker.

After about three weeks on your program, her heart action was
sufficiently improved to cause the doctor to postpone this proce-
dure. This lady is now a faithful follower of your cardiovascular
health program and, although she faces other medical challenges,
her heart condition continues to improve and the use of a pace-
maker is no longer being considered.

Sincerely,
K.C.

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Dear. Dr. Rath:

I am excited to tell you of my experience. I am a 60-year-old
female who has fought hypertension for the past 20 years with
many different types of medications, which would work for a
while, then become ineffective and start giving me problems.

In November of 1993, new symptoms began for which I was
referred to a cardiologist who determined I was well on my way
to a pacemaker. He decided not to treat this aggressively, but
instead, through medication. I have avoided surgery. In February
of this year, I began experiencing prolonged bouts of tachycardia
and was prescribed new, additional medication.

In March, I was introduced to your cardiovascular vitamin pro-
gram. Although I was skeptical, I decided to give it a try. I’ve just
started my third month on your nutrient program, and I have been
able to reduce my blood pressure medication by one-third.

The episodes of tachycardia have decreased dramatically, both in
intensity and duration. If an episode occurs, it is almost insignifi-
cant. At the same time, I have also noted a dramatic effect in
that my ankles are no longer swelling at the end of a workday.

Following my last lab work, my doctor told me, “Your numbers
look like someone half your age.” Needless to say, I am a staunch
believer in your vitamin program.

Sincerely,
F.S.

Dear Dr. Rath:

I am 54 years of age and have had a very irregular heartbeat for
at least 20 years. This was diagnosed as second degree electrical
heart block. I have never taken any medication for this. I have had
a stress test done approximately every 2 years and the heart block
showed up on the EKG. I was told that as long as my heartbeat
was regular when I exercised, I did not need any other treatment.

In June, I even went back to the doctor where I had my last EKG
done so there would be a basis for comparison. The doctor found
that there was no longer any arrhythmia. I have enclosed a copy
of his report. I am sure that your cardiovascular vitamin program
is responsible for the correction of my irregular heartbeat, as I had
not changed my lifestyle in any other respect.

Sincerely,
T.H.

Dear Dr. Rath:

How delightful when, after following your cardiovascular health
program for just 2 months, one notices the absence of irregular
heartbeats and the freedom to breathe freely. Confidence is
restored as one has increased vigor and endurance. In a word,
one spends less time thinking about the heart and more time
enjoying life.

Your cardiovascular nutrient program has become the answer for
resolving coronary problems. I am happy to have this opportunity
of expressing my gratitude for your advanced medical research
and for your cardiovascular health program.

Yours sincerely,
J.S.

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Dear Dr. Rath:

Thank you for developing your essential nutrient program, which I
am currently following. Several years ago, I was diagnosed as
having Hyperkinetic Heart Syndrome. I took medication for a few
years, but did not like how I felt — too slowed down and not able
to respond quickly to physical exertion.

During times of great stress, I would have pounding, irregular,
and racing heartbeats at nighttime when I was trying to fall
asleep. Also, when confronted with a stressful encounter during
the day, my heart would immediately jump into a racing, pound-
ing episode. I heard your lecture in May, and I immediately read
two of your books.

A week later, I began following your cardiovascular vitamin rec-
ommendations and within a few days, I was no longer experienc-
ing pounding, irregular, and racing heartbeats at bedtime.
Within a week, I noticed that when confronted with a stressful
encounter during the day, my heart did not jump into a racing
and pounding episode.

I have taken vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements for sev-
eral years, but have never had this amazing result before now!
Thank you so very much!

Yours truly,
C.M.

Dear Dr. Rath:

I am a 35-year-old medical professional. One and one-half years
ago, due to severe distress in my professional and personal lives, I
suddenly experienced bouts of supraventricular tachycardia (fast
heartbeat), which forced me into the emergency room every two
months over a six-month period. My average heart rate would be
230 beats per minute. This condition was life threatening, and
after my third episode, I was referred to the chief of cardiology at
the largest hospital in town. After a thorough evaluation, it was
concluded that I was not suffering from “anxiety,” but a primary
electrical problem with my heart and the supraventricular tachy-
cardia could occur anytime.

Therefore, he recommended a surgical procedure called cardiac
ablation. This procedure involved the insertion of catheters into my
subclavian and femoral arteries, threading them to the sinus and
atrioventricular nodal regions of the heart. A DC current would
cauterize certain regions of the heart theorized to be the cause of
this aberrant electrical circuit. Although this procedure was defi-
nitely indicated, I was too weakened from my recent bout with
tachycardia to consider immediate surgery. I therefore resolved to
improve my health by strengthening myself nutritionally with vita-
mins, minerals and herbal and homeopathic formulas.

My research led me to your cardiovascular health program. Your
formulation was specific to my health needs, and it saved me
much time considering I would have purchased many bottles of
isolated ingredients that are all found in your program. Therefore,
I embarked on a religious program of supplementation of the
essential nutrients you recommended. It has been one and one-
half years since my last episode. I have increased energy and lit-
tle to no chest pain. I look and feel much better. I attribute my
success and health to your program.

Sincerely,
S.S.

cardiovascular nutrient program, and the other group received
an ineffective placebo pill. Both groups continued their
pharmaceutical drug plan as prescribed by their doctors. The
study was conducted over a period of six months.

The results showed that my nutrient program was able to:

1. Decrease the episodes of irregular heartbeat in 30% of the

patients.

2. Continuously decrease irregular heartbeat over the duration

of the nutrient program.

3. Double the chances of a patient being completely free of

irregular heartbeat.

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A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled

Clinical Study Confirms

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations

Can Reduce Irregular Heartbeat

Until today, conventional medicine did not recognize the
basic understanding that irregular heartbeat is caused by a
deficiency of bioenergy-carrying nutrients in the heart muscle
cells as the underlying mechanism of this disease.

In Eugene Braunwald’s Heart Disease — A Textbook of
Cardiovascular Medicine, the leading textbook of cardiology,
we find the remarkable confession of one of the leading
conventional cardiologists: “It is important to realize that our
present diagnostic tools do not permit the determination of the
mechanisms responsible for most arrhythmias.”

Considering this dramatic lack of progress after a century of
conventional medical research into the causes of irregular
heartbeat, the need to solve this puzzle is obvious. It is even
more urgent, considering the fact that millions of patients
worldwide need no longer suffer from this condition.

With the support of thousands of patients I had already helped
with my Cellular Health recommendations, we conducted the
first independent clinical study with cellular nutrients in patients
with irregular heartbeat. The scientific value and credibility of
these study results are beyond any doubt because it was
conducted as a so-called “double-blind placebo-controlled”
study. This is the same type of study pharmaceutical companies
need to conduct in order to get acceptance for their drugs. The
complete study can be reviewed on our website

www.dr-rath-research.org.

One hundred and thirty-one patients suffering from irregular
heartbeat (atrial arrhythmia) were involved in this study. They
were divided into two groups. One group followed my

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74%

48%

Results of the first double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study testing a
natural nutrient program to fight arrhythmia

Approximately 74% of patients on pharmaceutical drugs only
(blue) continued to suffer from frequent episodes of irregular
heartbeat. In patients following my nutrient program — in addition
to taking their medication — these episodes were stopped in nearly
half of the patients (48%), a result that was statistically highly
significant (p<0.01).

Dr. Rath’s nutrient program decreased episodes of severe

irregular heartbeat in 48% of patients.

50

100

Percentage

of Patients

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Even more important were the additional findings about the
benefits of my nutrient program in improving overall physical
health, as well as mental health. This data was evaluated using
an extensive questionnaire in which patients had to answer
specific questions as to their physical and mental health
conditions. Each patient had to complete this questionnaire at
the beginning and end of the study. This comprehensive data
was evaluated using a computer-based grading system to meet
international scientific standards. Physical health questions
evaluated included, for example, the discomfort during
episodes of irregular heartbeat and the patients’ ability to
conduct their daily work. Mental health questions included the
patients’ fear of heart dysfunction, as well as related
depression.

The results were remarkable. Patients on my cellular nutrient
program outperformed the placebo patients approximately
four times in physical and mental health improvements.

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Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health recommendations improve

physical and mental health in arrhythmia patients.

10

Health

Improved

0

Health

Worsened

Solving the Puzzles of Cardiology

Why are arrhythmias particularly frequent

in young women of childbearing age?

One of the unsolved puzzles of conventional cardio-
logy is the fact that arrhythmias are particularly frequent
in young women of childbearing age.

Without understanding the underlying cause of these
arrhythmias in young women, they are frequently
prescribed anti-arrhythmic drugs with known severe
side effects, including the induction of even more
episodes of irregular heartbeat.

It is an inexusable failure of conventional cardiology to
have neglected for almost a century a thorough
investigation of this important health problem affecting
the lives of millions of young women.

The scientific breakthrough of Cellular Medicine
provides the immediate and obvious answer to this
medical puzzle. During her childbearing years, every
woman loses a significant amount of blood during the
menstrual cycle. It is not only blood that is lost, but also
its constituents, including vitamins, minerals and other
essential nutrients needed to maintain cellular energy
metabolism in the organs.

The “electrical” heart muscle cells responsible for the
generation and conduction of the electrical impulse for
regular heartbeat are among the first cells affected by
this deficiency. Thus, the prevention and treatment of
choice for arrhythmias — particularly in young women
— is the daily supplementation of essential nutrients.

The state of physical and mental health in these arrhythmia patients was
documented using a grading system.

Positive values meant health improvements, and negative values meant
health deterioration. Patients following my nutritional recommendations
(red column) improved their physical and mental health, compared to
patients taking drugs only (black column), whose conditions worsened.

Physical

Health

Mental

Health

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Cellular Health Recommendations

for Patients With Irregular Heartbeat

In addition to my Basic Cellular Health recommendations
described in Chapter One, I recommend that patients
with irregular heartbeat take the following cellular bioen-
ergy factors in higher dosages (compare to heart failure
recommendations):

Vitamin C:
supplies energy for the metabolism of each cell and sup-
plies the bioenergy carrier molecules of the vitamin B
group with lifesaving cellular energy

Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12 and Biotin:
bioenergy carriers of cellular metabolism and, particu-
larly, for the “electrical” heart muscle cells responsible for
the generation and conduction of the electrical impulse
for normal heartbeat

Coenzyme Q-10:
the most important element of the "respiratory chain" of
each cell; it plays a particular role in the energy metabo-
lism of heart muscle cells

Carnitine:
contributes to the efficient utilization of cellular bioenergy
in the "power plants" (mitochondria) of millions of heart
muscle cells

Magnesium and Calcium:
required, together with potassium, for the optimum con-
duction of electrical impulses during the electrical heart-
beat cycle

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